Let’s Go to College
CHAPTER 3
PREVIEW
With so many choices, how would you go about selecting a college?
Here in America, there are excellent colleges and universities everywhere. In fact, there are about 4,400 colleges, universities, and junior colleges in the U.S. Colleges, like students, come in all shapes and sizes. In your sophomore or junior year of high school, you will begin the process of researching colleges to ! nd a good match for your educational needs, talents and goals. With so many choices, how would you go about selecting a college? How do high school students even begin to ! lter through the mountains of information and thousands of options to select a college? Many factors go into a student’s choice of college. In this chapter, you will learn six of the most important selection criteria: region , academics , setting , size , personality and af ! liation . You will also learn that there is a good college match for every student!
Learning Goals
When you ! nish this chapter you should be able to: De ! ne seven college path vocabulary terms. List basic college selection criteria. Understand that there is a good college match for every student — including you!
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